OAS ("Obscure" 4CC skaters) news & articles

[Sylvia]

^^^ We should probably create a Denis Ten memorial/tribute thread - I had thought about bumping up the GSD one from 2019 again that I posted in last year (there's an old Fan thread in the Trash Can that perhaps can be converted?).

 

[Sylvia]

Re-posting from the 2023 Canadian summer competitions thread in Kiss & Cry...

'Anna' Tzu-Han TING (TPE), who is 17 now and currently coached and choreographed by Joey Russell in Toronto, won her Senior SP & FP groups at the Skate Ontario Sectional Series July comp.!

I'm optimistic that she is on track to get the SP TES (32) she needs for 2024 Worlds. Her TES in Friday's SP, for reference, was 29.78 (30.41 in her 2022 Worlds debut).
Her "Crimson Peak" SP from Friday's livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNcmwM9dHqA

Anna's post today: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cu__hJ3L2tp/

Joey Russell posted an IG story last night that said he choreographed both of her programs in the past 2 weeks that she has been in Toronto!
Her ISU bio is updated with her new program music: http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00108222.htm
SP: Crimson Peak [2015 film soundtrack] by Fernando Velázquez
FS: Sherlock Holmes (soundtrack) by Michael Price, David Arnold

Comment from last night's play-by-play thread :

We have Sherlock Holmes with voiceovers!

ETA credit to @Seerek who posted this in an earlier OAS news thread (April 2018):

I believe I am the first to post about Chinese Taipei's Tzu Han Ting (12), who landed 3 salchow - 3 toe combination in the free skate en route to winning advanced novice division at Rooster Cup [in France] last week.

 

[ice coverage]

Richard Kam has retired from competitive skating , per Instagram post today from joint account of his (former) Team New Zealand dance partnership with Charlotte Lafond-Fournier.

Although she had added herself to icepartnersearch quite a while ago, I think today's post is their first official announcement of the end of their partnership?
Until today, I had been holding out hope that Richard had not ruled out the possibility of a new partnership, but of course wish him well in future endeavors.

Excerpt:

" Charlotte will be looking to continue her skating career, so please continue to support her and her journey!​

Ricky has retired from competitive skating and will look for new beginnings.​

​

"​

​

Lafond-Fournier & Kam on Instagram: "Hi everyone, We wanted to let you know that our Ice Dance partnership together has come to an end. We are very grateful for having had this opportunity with each other and we are very proud of what we have achiev

145 likes, 3 comments - charlotte.richard.icedance on July 28, 2023: "Hi everyone, We wanted to let you know that our Ice Dance partnership together has come to an end. We are very grateful for having had this opportunity with each other and we are very proud of what we have achieved and...

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[On My Own]

Li Yu-Hsiang from """""""""""""Chinese Taipei"""""""""""""""" aka Taiwan won Asian Open's junior division We will be seeing him at 4CC, where hopefully he'll be getting senior mins (I think he's age eligible for seniors - and he was very close to getting senior mins here in both programs, despite junior tech requirements in the LP).

 

[Andrea82]

Li Yu-Hsiang from """""""""""""Chinese Taipei"""""""""""""""" aka Taiwan won Asian Open's junior division We will be seeing him at 4CC, where hopefully he'll be getting senior mins (I think he's age eligible for seniors - and he was very close to getting senior mins here in both programs, despite junior tech requirements in the LP).

He needs to get 4CC minimums first. They must be achieved in an international Senior competition.

 

[On My Own]

He needs to get 4CC minimums first. They must be achirved in an international Senior competition.

Oh god lol. Well hopefully he'll be sent to a small competition. I guess he could have just competed in seniors here, but they didn't bother, or they don't plan on doing seniors this season.

 

[cohkaix]

Oh god lol. Well hopefully he'll be sent to a small competition. I guess he could have just competed in seniors here, but they didn't bother, or they don't plan on doing seniors this season.

Yu-Hsiang will focus on JWC 2024 (to be held in Taipei), most likely. As for Sr. man, Chinese Taipei will have Fang-yi Lin, who has got very close to 4CC min., and he trains in Beijing.

 

[On My Own]

Yu-Hsiang will focus on JWC 2024 (to be held in Taipei)

Oh that's right!! Good luck to him, and Tzu-Han, I believe?

 

[cohkaix]

Oh that's right!! Good luck to him, and Tzu-Han, I believe?

Tzu-Han has moved up to Sr. level, so she should be sent to 4CC (TES minimum already reached). For jr. woman, the most likely entry will be Yu-feng Tsai, who just won the jr. women's title at AO trophy. Yu-feng will skate at both JGP Bangkok & Osaka, and has cleared the TES min for JWC.

 

[Karen-W]

Bumping this up - apparently Samodelkina is going to be competing on the JGP this season. I'm sure she'll also wind up at Denis Ten Memorial as a senior so that she can go to 4CCs and Worlds, but it's an interesting choice for her to return to international skating on the JGP.

https://www.instagram.com/stories/oh_my_quad/3404449610519300319?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igsh=NWphenc2YXl3ampt

 

[kwanfan1818]

It will give her an early start , with a choice of racking up points, get on the SB list, get the minimums for the option of going to Jr. Worlds, etc., before she focuses on senior events.

 

[airgelaal]

I still hope that this young putin fan will be banned.

 

[Karen-W]

Kazakhstan's JGP assignments have been decided -

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Interesting that Samodelkina is only doing one JGP instead of two seeing as she beat her two nearest competitors by 20+ points at the Summer Championship of Kazakhstan this week.

 

[Frau Muller]

Kazakhstan's JGP assignments have been decided -

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Interesting that Samodelkina is only doing one JGP instead of two seeing as she beat her two nearest competitors by 20+ points at the Summer Championship of Kazakhstan this week.

Paying her dues of time?

 

[happycamper2554]

Kazakhstan's JGP assignments have been decided -

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Interesting that Samodelkina is only doing one JGP instead of two seeing as she beat her two nearest competitors by 20+ points at the Summer Championship of Kazakhstan this week.

I'm sure if she medals and has a chance at the final they will give her the 2nd spot.

 

[Karen-W]

I'm sure if she medals and has a chance at the final they will give her the 2nd spot.

Kazakhstan only has 3 spots, so they would have to deliberately take an assignment away from one of the other two assigned.

 

[Karen-W]

North Korea has entered two men and one pairs team for Lombardia Trophy -

Men -
Ju Won RI - https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00120877.htm
Yong Myong RO - https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00108005.htm - competed at JGP Chelyabinsk in 2019.

Pairs -
Tae Ok RYOM / Kum Chol HAN - https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00120881.htm
She competed at the 2018 Olympics, 2018 Worlds and 2018 Worlds with her previous partner; he competed at JGP Chelyabinsk 2019 with his previous partner.

Uzbekistan has a "new" pairs team (last competed at Russian Nats in 2022 where they finished 11th) - Ekaterina Geynish/Dmitrii Chigirev - https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00120810.htm - their international debut will be at John Nicks Int'l Pairs Challenge.

 

[Ka3sha]

Samodelkina left “Angels of Pluschenko”, has been training in Kazakhstan for the past few weeks and is rumored to move to Raf in October

 

[On My Own]

I loved the North Korean kid's SP (Ro Yongmyong) haha!

 

[YukiNieve]

Donovan Carrillo will skate for XXII Hielojuegos nacionales 2024 in Puebla (9/24-9/25), Mexico.

Team Toyota México on Instagram: "¡LLEGÓ EL MOMENTO DE DONOVAN! ⛸️ @donovandcarr tiene participación esta semana en los XXII Hielojuegos nacionales 2024 y estaremos ahí para apoyarlo. 👏 #TeamToyotaMx #StartYpurImpossible"

399 likes, 16 comments - teamtoyotamx on September 23, 2024: "¡LLEGÓ EL MOMENTO DE DONOVAN! ⛸️ @donovandcarr tiene participación esta semana en los XXII Hielojuegos nacionales 2024 y estaremos ahí para apoyarlo. 👏 #TeamToyotaMx #StartYpurImpossible".

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He will compete (according to the above IG) at 8:30PM on 8/24 (I assume this is SP) and 9:20PM on 9/25 (FS) (the time is local time).

There is a live stream:

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ETA: The link for live stream has changed. (you can still watch him - he skated at the very end)

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[Seerek]

Brazil's Lucaz Trindade was given lots of praise by Ted and Mark in his 2 Junior Grand Prix's in Czechia and Turkiye, noting that the ice surface he usually trains at in Snowland in Gramado (southern mountain town, 1 hr north of Porto Alegre) is perhaps 1/8th of an Olympic sized ice rink (and apparently, he can only really train on weekends).

lucaz on Instagram: "Treino cheio de triplos! @snowland.academy @eddieegarcia01 @crisgarciask8r @snowlandgramado"

84 likes, 8 comments - lucazfilipe.s on February 11, 2024: "Treino cheio de triplos! @snowland.academy @eddieegarcia01 @crisgarciask8r @snowlandgramado".

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In June, his team attended the camp at Shattuck St Mary's in Minnesota (headed by Polina Edmunds, Surya Bonaly, among others).

lucaz on Instagram: "3Lo | Tku so much @polinaedmunds @eddieegarcia01 @ssmfigureskating @crisgarciask8r @snowland.academy @pbsk8coach #figureskating"

105 likes, 16 comments - lucazfilipe.s on June 15, 2024: "3Lo | Tku so much @polinaedmunds @eddieegarcia01 @ssmfigureskating @crisgarciask8r @snowland.academy @pbsk8coach #figureskating".

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[kalamalka]

Brazil's Lucaz Trindade was given lots of praise by Ted and Mark in his 2 Junior Grand Prix's in Czechia and Turkiye, noting that the ice surface he usually trains at in Snowland in Gramado (southern mountain town, 1 hr north of Porto Alegre) is perhaps 1/8th of an Olympic sized ice rink (and apparently, he can only really train on weekends).

lucaz on Instagram: "Treino cheio de triplos! @snowland.academy @eddieegarcia01 @crisgarciask8r @snowlandgramado"

84 likes, 8 comments - lucazfilipe.s on February 11, 2024: "Treino cheio de triplos! @snowland.academy @eddieegarcia01 @crisgarciask8r @snowlandgramado".

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In June, his team attended the camp at Shattuck St Mary's in Minnesota (headed by Polina Edmunds, Surya Bonaly, among others).

lucaz on Instagram: "3Lo | Tku so much @polinaedmunds @eddieegarcia01 @ssmfigureskating @crisgarciask8r @snowland.academy @pbsk8coach #figureskating"

105 likes, 16 comments - lucazfilipe.s on June 15, 2024: "3Lo | Tku so much @polinaedmunds @eddieegarcia01 @ssmfigureskating @crisgarciask8r @snowland.academy @pbsk8coach #figureskating".

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I saw him in person in Ostrava, and agree with the praise from Ted and Mark - love his lines and his rotating position is tight and jumps clean. Really wish he could have more time on a full sized rink to be able to skate free and get his speed up. I think he could be really good if he had a proper training environment.

 

[Sylvia]

Interview with Sofia Samodelkina, whose mother was born in Kazakhstan, after she won the silver at the CS Denis Ten Memorial Challenge this past weekend - English version: http://www.figureskating-online.com/Interviews/Sofia-Samodelkina/
She attained the TES combined minimum score for 2025 Worlds on her first try.

 

[Sylvia]

Kudos to Kazakhstan's Mikhail Shaidorov on his historic first 3A+4T landed in his FS at GP de France! https://x.com/dailyshaidorov/status/1852741073841344783

https://twitter.com/x/status/1852741073841344783

 

[Sylvia]

Tzu-Han (Anna) TING (TPE), who already has the CTES minimum of 90 for 2025 Worlds, announced on her Instagram on Oct. 23, 2024 that she “will be taking a break from competitive skating for an indefinite period of time” (she recently moved to England to begin studies at the University of Leeds ):

Annaveia Tzu-Han Ting 丁子涵 on Instagram: "Hello everybody✨🌿💌Anna again, a quick update from me. As you guys know, I’ve just made the move to UK and started university here in Leeds. So far I’ve greatly enjoyed the courses and everything the city has t

523 likes, 35 comments - annaveiating on October 23, 2024: "Hello everybody✨🌿💌Anna again, a quick update from me. As you guys know, I’ve just made the move to UK and started university here in Leeds. So far I’ve greatly enjoyed the courses and everything the city has to offer. However, following...

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Her only competition this season was CS Lombardia Trophy in Septembeer: http://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00108222.htm

 

[Sylvia]

One more for today ... re-posting here from the ISU Championships Minimum Combined Total Elements Scores (CTES) thread that's pinned at the top of GSD: https://www.fsuniverse.net/forum/th...tes-and-multiple-entries.111935/#post-6665638

Gian-Quen Isaacs of South Africa achieved the minimum for Four Continents at the Diamond Cup [for her FS TES].

She's been training at IceLab in Bergamo this season with Ondrej Hotarek: https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00103298.htm
Isaacs' coach in South Africa, Megan Allely, competed internationally for RSA from 2001-2006: https://www.isuresults.com/bios/isufs00006067.htm

 

[Sylvia]

Isabella Gamez & Aleksandr Korovin will be the first Southeast Asian pair to compete in the ISU Grand Prix series! They weren't able to go to NHK Trophy but can make it to Cup of China: https://www.instagram.com/p/DCQFEy4SCa_/

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[Sylvia]

The new ice dance team Instagram account of Dana Sabatini-Speciale (previously competed on JGP with Nicholas Buelow for Canada) and Daniel Kaye announced today that they will represent South Africa!

Dana & Daniel - D² on Instagram: "Exciting new opportunities 🇿🇦✨"

299 likes, 22 comments - dana_daniel_icedance on November 12, 2024: "Exciting new opportunities 🇿🇦✨".

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[Ka3sha]

Rafael Arutyunyan about Samodelkina:
A figure skater who recently joined the Kazakhstan team went to the USA for a training camp with a coach.

"Sofia did come for a consultation; she spent almost three weeks with us. We got to know each other, and I gave her some initial recommendations.
But if we're talking about long-term work, this is a project that won't be quick — it will take more than just one year. If her federation is willing to commit to that, we're open to cooperation; our doors are not closed. However, if they think Arutyunyan can quickly perform some miracle, it's better not to pursue this at all.

This will require a fundamental change in her approach to training. It's one thing to work with a young girl who can perform jumps, and a completely different thing to coach an adult athlete whose mindset should be structured differently. She definitely has many strengths. She knows how to compete, pull herself together, and perform at her maximum. She's a real fighter, managing jumps that others might not be able to save. She has unique abilities — otherwise, would she have made it this far? But there's a problem: she hasn't been trained to have a long-term career in sports. A complete reset is needed because her career was almost over, and then suddenly, there was this unexpected new turn. Now, she has to decide what to do next with her training and her body. Is she ready for this? Only she and her team know the answer."

 

[Sylvia]

Isabella Gamez/A. Korovin's current CTES minimum score of 81.10 is still short of the 88 required for 2025 Worlds but Korovin's Philippine citizenship looks almost certain now (Dec. 3, 2024):

Senate OKs bill granting PH citizenship to Russian figure skater Aleksandr Korovin

The Senate on Tuesday approved on third and final reading a bill granting Philippine citizenship to Russian figure skater Aleksandr Sergeyevich Korovin.

www.gmanetwork.com

The Senate on Tuesday approved on third and final reading a bill granting Philippine citizenship to Russian figure skater Aleksandr Sergeyevich Korovin.
Senate Bill 2461 was approved with 21 affirmative votes, zero negative votes, and zero abstention.
The bill naturalizing Korovin as a Filipino is being pushed amid the Philippines' preparation for the 2026 Winter Olympics in the Italian cities of Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo.

G/K did not have to compete at Nationals, Nov. 7-8, in Pasay (south of Manila) - RESULTS (posting here belatedly rather than
in the National Championships 2024-2025 subforum in Kiss & Cry): https://phsuresults.org/PNFSC2024/
Nationals recap article: https://mb.com.ph/2024/11/9/bautista-rules-ph-figure-skating-meet

Senior Women
Result
FPl. Name Club Nation Points SP FS
1 Maxine Marie BAUTISTA PHI 132.84 1 1 (made the switch from the USA this season & has qualified for the Asian Winter Games in Feb. 2025) - her post & photos:

Maxine Bautista on Instagram: "2024 Philippine Nationals 🇵🇭🥇 & Carols on Ice ❄️ My first Philippine Nationals was so memorable. The crowd was so warm and supportive. I am so happy and grateful to start a new chapter in skating representing the Phili

405 likes, 98 comments - maxinebautista on November 12, 2024: "2024 Philippine Nationals 🇵🇭🥇 & Carols on Ice ❄️ My first Philippine Nationals was so memorable. The crowd was so warm and supportive. I am so happy and grateful to start a new chapter in skating representing the Philippines. Thank...

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2 Cathryn LIMKETKAI PHI 123.24 2 2 (current Sr. CTES of 69.27 at Bosphorus Cup last weekend; Jr. CTES of 69.44 at Sonja Henie Trophy 2024 & 72 is needed for Jr. Worlds)
3 Sofia FRANK PHI 108.79 3 4 (current Sr. CTES of 75.37 & 4CC is 75; Jr. CTES is 57.58)
4 Sasha GIAMMARCO LAFSC PHI 102.90 5 3
5 Charmaine Skye CHUA PHI 88.64 4 6
6 Skye Frances PATENIA PHI 86.04 6 5

Senior Men (Edrian Paul Celestino has returned to skating for Canada and has qualified for 2025 Canadian Nationals)
Result
FPl. Name Club Nation Points SP FS
1 Paolo BORROMEO PHI 135.51 1 1 (currrent CTES of 81.76 at CS Nice; 4CC is 86)

Junior Men
Result
FPl. Name Club Nation Points SP FS
1 Brandon BALDOZ PHI 141.02 1 1

Junior Women medalists:
1 Lillianna FISH CFSC PHI 92.89 5 1
2 Isabella Miel HAZELTON PHI 90.82 3 2
3 Samantha MASCARINAS PHI 89.17 2 3